Free, Open-Source Revision Control System
Current Homepage: http://subversion.tigris.org/
Developed by: CollabNet
I’m presenting this article in a slightly different structure than my previous Open Source Life articles. This is part 1 of 3. Part 3 will be my opinion of Subversion. Part 2 will be a step by step walk through of using Subversion, with lots of pictures [...]
My friend Steve got me to sign up for Twitter last October. He was just so damn excited about it that I gave in and registered for what I thought to be “another damn social networking and poor excuse for an instant messenger for the geek elite” account. After more some more thoughts about twitter [...]
Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Encryption
Current Homepage: http://www.truecrypt.org
Created by: The TrueCrypt Foundation
Abstract
TrueCrypt offers those that want to protect their personal data some peace of mind. TrueCrypt allows any user to create an encrypted “virtual hard drive” with no more than the TrueCrypt application and some free diskspace. Accompanied with a modicum of common sense, the data stored [...]
After installing Songbird version 0.30 last night, I looked at my quickstart bar. Thought I either had a burned out pixel or some food particle on the screen. Turns out “The Songbird Team” (the developers of this application) have a good sense of humor, even with the little details.
Songbird 0.25 Icon
Songbird 0.30 Icon
In 1999, Chris Baty and about 20 others experimented with writing an entire novel in the month of November. The experiment was a success, not in terms of number of novels published, but in the positive experience of those who participated. Chris stuck with it and has restarted his experiment each year since, and each [...]
Songbird
Current Homepage: http://songbirdnest.com/
Created by: “The Songbird Team”
Abstract
Songbird may spawn a new breed of media players. The application’s paradigm of “playing the web” provides a fresh media experience currently only for the adventurous.
Synopsis
What was the impetus for beginning use of Songbird? I liked iTunes, but got tired of the DRM‘d music.
With what other programs did I [...]
Not open source, but potentially very cool, is FriendFeed. To me, FriendFeed seems to promise to take some of the ‘H’ out of ADHD web browsing and article reading. As the number of separate feeds grows in my newsreader, I am beginning to collect multiple feeds from the same person. For example, I have Person [...]
This is not the official next article in this series.
I just signed up for my OpenID today at MyOpenID. I’ve been reading snippets about OpenID for the last couple of months for one reason only: I HATE HAVING MULTIPLE LOGINS AND PASSWORDS AND EVERY DAMN WEBSITE NOWADAYS REQUIRES A LOGIN AND PASSWORD AND SEEMS TO [...]
Browsing through backarticles of Becoming a Writer Seriously, I ran across a Youtube director codenamed leelefever. After watching his RSS in Plain English, I noticed he has a great video about wikis. Following up my previous post, here’s Wikis in Plain English for those who are still wiki curious.
Current Homepage: http://jhorman.org/wikidPad/
Created by: Jason Horman
Current project lead: Michael Butscher
Abstract
wikidPad is a desktop wiki. Wikis provide a way to organize and link disparate data into cohesive webs of information. wikidPad picks up the organizational baton where notebooks, index cards, word processing documents, and spreadsheets leave off, yet only requires the user learn a [...]